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| author |   chenqiwu <chenqiwu@xiaomi.com> | 2020-06-04 16:48:55 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-04 19:06:23 -0700 |
| commit | 57e86fa16a707db9e05dec77eb88a398f05a022b (patch) | |
| tree | 78842011ce7ca387015a4db4b9738e13cfd57c69 /include | |
| parent | mm/memory_hotplug: disable the functionality for 32b (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-linux-57e86fa16a707db9e05dec77eb88a398f05a022b.tar.xz wireguard-linux-57e86fa16a707db9e05dec77eb88a398f05a022b.zip | |
mm: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension
to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in
case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will
help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this
change:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: chenqiwu <chenqiwu@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1586599916-15456-1-git-send-email-qiwuchen55@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 5bfc36320e3c..1744081a34d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1726,7 +1726,7 @@ struct frame_vector { unsigned int nr_frames; /* Number of frames stored in ptrs array */ bool got_ref; /* Did we pin pages by getting page ref? */ bool is_pfns; /* Does array contain pages or pfns? */ - void *ptrs[0]; /* Array of pinned pfns / pages. Use + void *ptrs[]; /* Array of pinned pfns / pages. Use * pfns_vector_pages() or pfns_vector_pfns() * for access */ }; |